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Figure 23-2.
Challenges to Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
23.4 Hybrid Approaches
Due to the above-mentioned challenges, it is unlikely that we will see a proliferation
of purely object- oriented DBMS suites involving only encapsulated database objects
in the immediate future. The benefits of OT are therefore likely to continue to be more
significant in the area of user interface than database (of course with a few exceptions as
mentioned earlier). The relational model on the other hand, has long proven its worth.
The best we can therefore expect is a peaceful coexistence of both OO systems and
relational databases — a kind of hybrid. The next two subsections describe two hybrid
approaches.
